Re: [Nettime-bold] Competitive Morphing and Theme Adoption in the Art's (of Alienation) (fwd)

[{ brad brace } <bbrace@eskimo.com>]

> It typically goes something like this: group of
> upper-social-strata-investors primarily prompted by
> accredited gallerist, create instant market-value by all
> agreeing to buy/resell the work(s) of designated artist(s).
> 
> Artists often run their own galleries/cultural-centers, but
> fail to run-up prices like the "real" galleries do... I
> wonder if there's been an instance of artists also forming
> "buying circles" of their own and others' work? Various
> mechanisms could be employed... one might be for all to
> "subscribe" to an ever growing circle/patronage-pool, paying
> a fixed amount each month, and allocating collective bids
> towards others' favoured work (which could be previewed via
> the Web)...
> 
> On a very pragmatic level, this would at least allow artists
> to properly collect on insurance claims by establishing a
> verifiable "market value." And, as "artist's artists," the
> purchases could fundamentally come to mean more than the
> mysterious, hijinx of backroom artworld gallery swindles. 
> 



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